Quotes About Communication

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces

Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it!

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attentionÃ. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Never ignore your friends just because you are in relationship.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thought unexpressed- that can make this life a garden.